1993 CADILLAC SEVILLE Owners Manual

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A CAUTION:
Don’t let anyone ride where they cadt wear a safety beIt
properly. If you are in a crash and you’re not wearing a safety
belt, your injuries can be much worse, You can hit things inside
the vehicle or be ejected from it. You can be seriously injured or
killed. in the same crash, you might not be if you are buckled
up. Always fasten your safety belt, and check that your
passengers’ belts are fastened properly too.
This figure lights up when you turn the key to “Run” or “Start” when
your safety belt isn’t buckled, and you’ll hear a chime,
too. It’s the
reminder to buckle up.
In many states and Canadian provinces, the law
says to wear safety belts.
Here’s
why: They work.
You never know
if you’ll be in a crash. If you do have a crash, you don’t
know
if it will be a bad one.
A few crashes are very mild. In them, you won’t get hurt even if you’re
not buckled up. And some crashes can be
so serious, like being hit by a
train, that even buckled up a person wouldn’t survive.
But most crashes
are
in between. In many of them, people who buckle up can survive and
sometimes
walk away. Without belts they could be badly hurt or killed.
After
25 years of safety belts in vehicles, the facts are clear. In most
crashes buckling
up does matter ... a lot!

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When you ride in or on anything, you go as fast as it goes.
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For example, if the
bike is going 10 mph
(16 km/h), so is the
child.
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Take the simplest
“vehicle.” Suppose
it’s
just a seat on wheels.
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Get it up to speed.
Then
stop the “car.”
The rider doesn’t stop.
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The person keeps
going until stopped
by something.
In a real vehicle,
it
could be the
windshield
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or the instrument
panel
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With safety belts, you slow down as the vehicle does. You get more time
to stop. You stop over more distance, and your strongest bones take the
forces. That’s
why safety belts make such good sense.
HERE ARE QUESTIONS lMANy PEOPLE
ANSWERS ASKABOUT
SAFETYBELTS
--AND THE
Q: Won’t I be trapped in the vehicle afler an accident if I’m wearing a safety
belt?
A: You could be -- whether you’re wearing a safety belt or not. But you
can easily unbuckle a safety belt, even if you’re upside down. And
your chance
of being conscious during and after an accident, so you
- can unbuckle and get out, is - much greater if you are belted.
Q t Why don’t they just put in air bags so people won’t have to wear safety
belts?
A: ‘Air bags,” or Supplemental Inflatable Restraint systems, are in some
vehicles today and
will be in more of them in the future. But they are
supplemental systems only
-- so they work with safety belts, not
instead
of them. Every “air bag” system ever offered for sale has
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required the use of safety belts. Even if you're in a vehicle that has ''
air bags," YOU still have to buckle up to get the most protection.
That's true not only in frontal collisions, but especially in side and
other collisions.
Q: IfI'm a good driver, and I never drive farfiom home, why should I wear
safety
belts?
A: You may be an excellent driver, but if you're in an accident -- even
one that isn't your fault -- you and your passengers can be hurt.
Being a good driver doesn't protect you from things beyond your
control, such as bad drivers.
Most accidents occur within
25 miles (40 km) of home. And the greatest
number
of serious injuries and deaths occur at speeds of less than 40 mph
(65 km/h).
Safety belts are for everyone.
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Adults
This section is only for people of adult size.
A CAUTION
There are special things to know (about safety belts and
children; And there are dffferent rules for babies and smaller
children. If a child will1 be riding in your Cadillac, see the
: section after his one, called “Children? Follow those rules for
eveqme’s protection.
First, you’ll want to know which restraint systems your vehicle has.
We’ll start with the driver position.
DmR POSITION
This section describes the driver’s restraint system.
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